Candice:
> I'd quibble with you on the question of suppressing the childhood-of-Jesus
> texts purely on grounds of taste (which would also be censorship, no?)
> because those too seem likely to have struck the NT authors, who were
making
> every effort to advance their candidate's qualifications for Messiahship,
as
> political dynamite. How could they have viewed those disturbing anecdotes
> about what Jesus did to kids who wouldn't play with him as anything but?
Well, not +just+ on the grounds of taste. I mean, would +you+ play
basketball with someone who, if he got pissed off, would zap you with a
stone from the sky?
Or try to teach a kindergarden kid who, if you corrected his spelling, had a
slate fall from the roof and brain you?
I'm reminded of Elisha (or was it Elija?) and those bears.
"Ha, ha, look at the silly old man!"
'Go get 'em, pards!'
CRUNCH CRUNCH CHOMP CHOMP.
Exit the 600.
Actually, that would have been one way of locking the The Childhood Gospels
into the Messiahanic Prophecy element -- The Young Jesus as Elisha
Revividus.
Robin
[In the unlikely event that anyone is puzzled: 2 Kings 2: 23-25. And
before Candice gets at me for a Chomskyite exaggeration, OK, when I checked,
it was only 42. And there were only two bears. Well, who needs more?
The Revenge of the Slapheads]
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